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Geek News on the Radio for February 3rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, I got a quick little something for you
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  Speaker 1: to watch today. But the full well, it may not
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: even be the full trailer tomorrow. I thought that the
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic four trailer would be appearing on the Super Bowl,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: and I think it is the full one, probably, But
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: we just got a quick twenty second teaser for the
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic formula, which definitely places it.
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  Speaker 2: A period piece. Now, who's in it?
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  Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal. He's mister fantastic cousin. What's his name? From
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  Speaker 1: the bear is the thing?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got But this is just and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: play this for you. You can go and find this online
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  Speaker 1: really quick. Here, Like I said, it's just twenty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: So here we go. Let's see if we get this going.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, now, don't be don't be that way, be
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  Speaker 2: that way. There we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's all these kids running in the streets. It's like
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  Speaker 1: late fifties, early sixties.
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  Speaker 2: They go to a store where there's the TV, and
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  Speaker 2: there's the TV looking at the Fantastic fours rocket ships.
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  Speaker 1: Taking off and it says tomorrow launch coverage begins at
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  Speaker 1: seven am.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a period piece, or at least it
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  Speaker 1: starts out in the late fifties early sixties. Is that
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  Speaker 1: comic book appropriate? Well, I mean that's when the comic
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  Speaker 1: book was created.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 3: Now the Fantastic Four. There's Mister Fantastic, there's the Thing.
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  Speaker 3: Then there's a human torch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Johnny, Johnny Storm and his sister, the Invisible Girl.
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  Speaker 3: That's a comic book. I was not a big comic
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  Speaker 3: book kid, but by that's a comic book. I did
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  Speaker 3: from time.
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  Speaker 1: To time, but I always said that it should be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make it a period piece and make it
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  Speaker 1: a comedy.
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  Speaker 2: It was what I said. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: they're making it a comedy or not. Well, Pedro can
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  Speaker 2: do that. Pedro can do that.
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  Speaker 1: So I talk about bad fandom on geek News quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit because it's everywhere. And the latest victim of
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  Speaker 1: bad fandom was Star Wars The Acolyte, which was a
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  Speaker 1: really good series that, of course, because there were too
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  Speaker 1: many people of color in it, the Star Wars fans
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  Speaker 1: got upset, feelings, get hurt. Yeah, they're a small they're
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  Speaker 1: a minority, but they're very loud, and they're so loud
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  Speaker 1: that the companies like Lucasfilm listened to them, and Disney
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  Speaker 1: listened to them well to their own peril, because according
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  Speaker 1: to the numbers, The Acolyte was the second most watched
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  Speaker 1: show on Disney Plus last year. Why wouldn't they wait
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  Speaker 1: till that information comes out before they I question exactly, Gino,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't you wait for the numbers to come in?
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  Speaker 2: But there you go.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't watched The Acolyte, it's quite good and
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  Speaker 1: some of the best lightsaber duels, fights that you will
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  Speaker 1: that you will see, just really really and a great villain.
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  Speaker 1: Manny Jacinto as the as the villain. He's so good.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Universal Studios fan Fest nights.
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  Speaker 1: These are you know, Universal Studios running the theme park
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  Speaker 1: down there in southern California. They look over at Disney,
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  Speaker 1: and Disney does special fan fest nights.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they they they just.
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  Speaker 1: Recently did a Lunar New Year thing, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was very big for them, and they went, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: have IP I think.
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  Speaker 2: We could make some money do it. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they've been doing the Halloween horror nights, but
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  Speaker 1: this is this is going to be spread throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: So some of the things that they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: are of course Super Nintendo World and Wizarding World. They
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  Speaker 1: get their own thing. They're also going to do a
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  Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons Night where they're going to have it's
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  Speaker 1: like a you know, LARPing kind of a situation Back
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  Speaker 1: to the Future night and Star Trek Red Alert.
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  Speaker 2: What is that red alert?
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  Speaker 1: Now? What happened is is that when they made that
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  Speaker 1: TV series Picard, they didn't break down the Enterprise d
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  Speaker 1: Bridge set.
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  Speaker 2: They kept it and you get to go on it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Here here you need to go, I know, right, But
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  Speaker 1: here's the real reason I need to go is because
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  Speaker 1: they're doing thematic foods, including this delicious looking thing.
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  Speaker 2: What there we go? It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Seti Eel margarita. You remember the eels form wrap of
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  Speaker 1: Khan that they put inside Checkov's.
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  Speaker 2: Ears and then the bones gave him my andker.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see it right there on top of the drink.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's an eel that you, I guess, don't put
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  Speaker 1: in your ear.
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  Speaker 2: It's plastic. I think it's a gummy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the Seti Eagle, the other some of the other
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  Speaker 1: foods that they that they're doing that Star Trek themed
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  Speaker 1: are cling on targ legs in a hearty rice bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, targ is a dog. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this was a good idea. This was not a good idea. Also,
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  Speaker 2: the triple truffle trio. That sounds good. Little yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: don't just like a mouthful of hair exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And finally this story, remember the Star Wars Galactic Cruiser
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  Speaker 1: down at Disney World immersive hotel thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you're on a space.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy expensive, and then it was in operation
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  Speaker 1: for like six months, was all, and then they closed it.
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  Speaker 1: You'll you'll be happy to know that the ship is
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  Speaker 1: found a new purpose. Okay, office spaces. So it's disappointing
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  Speaker 1: all that money, really, all that time, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: the imagineers now their new offices will be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so isn't that nice? Yeah? Okay, seti eel Margarita.
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  Speaker 2: The blood will come out of your ears.